Letter: GOP’s ‘just say no’ policy is warranted

Wednesday

Aug 6, 2014 at 5:00 PM

In response to recent letters by Brian Opsahl and Barbara Beauvais complaining of the GOP’s “just say no” policy, I would like to remind them and all readers that since President Barack Obama took office, 92 million people are no longer in the workforce, an increase of over 11 million people facing unemployment since January 2009.

Economist Ben Casselman reports that 49 out of 50 months have seen more people giving up looking for work than have found work. A recent study by the Russell Sage Foundation found that middle-class Americans are poorer today than in 1984. Food stamp enrollments have gone from 31.9 million when Obama took office to over 42 million in April 2014. There are over 108 million people who are on one or more forms of welfare.

We now are being informed that our health care insurance rates will experience double-digit increases due to the failed Obamacare law. The U.S. debt has increased over $7 trillion dollars during the Obama administration. I would hate to imagine what it would be like if the GOP had said “yes.”